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A means of determining air emission source regions adversely influencing the city of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada from potential burning of isolated piles of mountain pine beetle-killed lodge pole pine is presented. The analysis uses the CALPUFF atmospheric dispersion…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, British Columbia, burning permits, Canada, Dendroctonus ponderosae, fire exclusion, fire management, forest management, human caused fires, insects, mortality, pine, plant diseases, slash, smoke management, wind, wood, airshed, CALPUFF, influence region, dispersion modeling
This report details a procedure for identifying fuel loading models (FLMs) in the field. FLMs are a new classification system for predicting fire effects from on-site fuels. Each FLM class represents fuel beds that have similar fuel loadings and produce similar emissions and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel loading, fire mapping, fuel classification, first-order fire effects, fuel classification key, fine fuels, fuel types, heavy fuels, air quality, biomass, duff, herbaceous vegetation, litter, soil temperature, fuel management, wildlife habitat management, chaparral, grasslands, shrublands
We present a classification of duff, litter, fine woody debris, and logs that can be used to stratify a project area into sites with fuel loading that yield significantly different emissions and maximum soil surface temperature. Total particulate matter smaller than 2.5 m in…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel loading, simulation modeling, soil temperature, fuel mapping, duff, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, fine fuels, fire management, fuel management, litter, statistical analysis, surface fuels, temperature, wildfires, woody fuels
Data and algorithms from earth-orbiting satellite observations provide key components in scientists' tools that can map active fires and burn scars. Fire perimeter maps can then be crafted using this data. Armed with fire perimeter maps that have been linked to fuel maps of the…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, particulates, algorithms, gases, satellite data, air quality forecasting
The First Order Fire Effects Model Mapping Tool (FOFEMMT) provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software and the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) (Reinhardt 2003). FOFEM is a non-spatial fire effects analysis program that computes potential first order fire effects…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ArcMap, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, spatial analysis, tree mortality, soil heating, fuel consumption
Fire and fuel managers often need to know how much fuel a fire will consume, and how much smoke the fire will produce. Many factors influence the ultimate smoke impacts, and a variety of fuel models and consumption models have been developed to help provide useful answers.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CONSUME, FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fuel loading, EPM - Emissions Production Model, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, fuel mapping, fire reporting, BlueSky Modeling Framework, fuel consumption models
An overview of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) current operational Smoke Forecasting System (SFS) is presented. This system is intended as guidance to air quality forecasters and the public for fine particulate matter (≤2.5 μm) emitted from large…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke forecasting, air pollution, forest fires, wildfires, NESDIS - National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory, hazard map
Fire and fuel managers often need to know how much fuel will be consumed by a fire, and how much smoke the fire will produce. A variety of fuel loading maps and fuel consumption models have been developed to produce these and other estimates. Many factors influence the end…
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel loading, fuel consumption modeling, model comparison
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based data for the western United…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, biomass, biomass burning, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, Colorado, ENSO, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, forest management, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, private lands, range management, rangelands, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming
Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate-weather, fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of greenhouse gases that may have profound and possibly unexpected impacts on global fire activity. The…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Australia, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, disturbance, Europe, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, forest management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, greenhouse gases, lightning, remote sensing, season of fire, South America, wildfires, area burned, C - carbon, fire activity, forest fire, intensity, management, review, season, severity